If what you are saying is true, which I don't believe, Boise would, at least, have to beat several very quality teams to win a title. As it is now, they might get a one game championship scenario without having to play anybody until the title game.

Deciding it on the field is always better than a subjective beauty contest.

It's not about who's the best. It's about who wins it. Who wins it is not subjective. You either win it or you don't.

On the other hand, just randomly assigning teams as the best doesn't take into account that some teams just match up with other teams better.

When you split up a conference into divisions, it's understood that sometimes one division will be stronger than the other, sometimes by a lot. I can remember when it was Spurrier vs Manning in the East and the teams in the West were an afterthought.

Isn't the one who wins supposed to be the best? Isn't that the point?

I know this. And that's why I'm expressing my disdain of it. In those days, it was clearly the East and the Rest. I always thought it was a waste of a championship game to put an all-pro Florida team against a high-school team from the West, like it'll probably play out this year.

I agree with you. If we had taken care of business against Auburn on the field, these discussions would not be necessary. If you don't even win your own conference, how can you expect to play for the NC? We should take care of the rest of our games and kick butt in the best bowl we get.

That's the system we have though, which is why Boise State cannot, and should not play for a championship. They shouldn't even be considered, unless there is a playoff system and they fight through the playoffs.

Do they have alot of seniors? Sure, have they been undefeated in 2 straight seasons? Sure, could they play 8 legit opponents in a season and still come out unscathed? Probably not.

And that could be another reason that they do well in bowl games, they don't have to get beaten up, week in and week out like teams from real conferences do.

I mean think of it like this, at your job, you work your ass off, and then there is that one guy who doesn't do anything all year, his job is to shred papers or something. Then at the end of the year, bonuses are handed out, and your bonus is the same as his. Boise State is the paper shredder dude, as is TCU. Oregon, Auburn, LSU, Bama, those are the guys who bust their ass all year and make the business what it is.

Were you saying that in 2001 when a #2 ranked 10-1 Tennessee team played a # 21 ranked 8-3 LSU team in the sec championship game? So you didn't think lsu DESERVED to go to the sugar bowl that year? I'm not trying to be ugly about these things but it amazes me how alot...not all...of people try to change their opinions year to year because it would benifit lsu better. It's the system, it's what we have when it works for us we love it......when it works against us...we want to change everything and say it's not right.

Where exactly is this confidence of his coming from? My lack of confidence supported a season's worth of offensive issues yet to be corrected. Three or four games into the season he can claim "rust" or even "vanilla playcalling", but we're at the end of the season and in conference play. It's good old fashioned "lack of execution" and "incompetence" now. I know a lot of people feel better about the offense after Alabama, but one game is not indicative of problems solved. Especially when that one game was followed up with another poor showing against NLU. How does NLU's Kolton Browning still look better than JJ and JL when he has to play against the SEC's best defense?

Just because JJ threw a nice pass to Randle on a slant who then used his athletic ability to cover the other 65 yards doesn't mean the offense is finally clicking on all cylinders. We were fortunate that Alabama stopped running the ball. The offense os going to have to make every drive count versus Arkansas in Little Rock where the Razorbacks almost never lose.

Great point ...I think Les's confidence comes from his defense and special teams ALWAYS putting him in a position to win.....I KNOW WITHOUT A DOUBT, that his confidence does not come from the offense!!

LSU won the SEC in 2001, but we probably were not the best team in the SEC. Tennessee was, though we got the better of them that night.

Do you honestly think that Miles doesn't realize our offense is bad? Of course he does!

However...we're having a d@mn strong season in SPITE of that. I think any confidence he has is because we have a good team.